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Re: Importing lua(4), but where in the source tree?



Hi,

From: Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>, Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:24:50 
+0100

> 
> Am 12.01.2013 um 21:15 schrieb Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost>:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> From: Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>, Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:11:38 
>> +0100
>> 
>>> 
>>> I want to import the lua(4) device driver, which is currently a module 
>>> only, which seems wrong.
>>> 
>>> Is sys/dev/lua/ a good place?
>> 
>> Nowadays I am playing with lua in userland.
>> 
>> Current lua in base userland is 5.1.5 and it seems that it lacks bitwise
>> operation commands.
>> According to Lua website, newer 5.2 have bitwise operations, bit32.band etc.
>> 
>> What version of Lua will be imported?
>> I have no idea about kernel manner, but I think Lua 5.2 is preferable
>> for kernel use, because bitwise operations are more important in kernel.
> 
> For the time being it is Lua 5.1.4 (and that is already in the tree, so Lua 
> does not get imported, it just gets used in the kernel as well).  Once all is 
> in place I will start to update everything to Lua 5.2.
> 
> Does that sound OK to you?

O.k. to me. Thank you!

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